Money & Politics column: Platforms highlight party differences

3:30 PM,
Jun. 22, 2014

Written by

Bill Lueders
| Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

The Republican Party of Wisconsin drew national attention recently for weighing whether to affirm the state's right to secede from the union. The proposal was rejected at the party's convention in early May, after the vast majority of Republicans in the state Assembly opposed it as "worthless" and "a distraction."

The state Democratic Party, meanwhile, made headlines because its proposed 2014 platform called for legalizing marijuana and gay marriage. Both planks, which the party approved at its convention in early June, were actually golden oldies, having also passed in the party's ...